198754 - FTP/html: Directory listings have case-sensitive sort

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, enhancement)

Description

[Greg Valure]

20030312 WinXP (1.3)

Local and FTP directory listings are sorted in a case-sensitive manner, meaning
files appear in A-B-C-a-b-c order instead of A-a-B-b-C-c order.  I don't know if
this is typical on other platforms but it's not on Windows.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/ works as an example, since README
appears above experimental.

A guess at the component.  I don't know if this should be dealt with here (FTP
code should return sorted results) or in the directory listing formatter (should
sort results before building HTML listing) or what component the latter even is.

Comment 1

[benc]

->NEW, Camino 0.7 does this too.

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

We do no sorting.  The file listing is generated by the server and we convert it
to an internal format (indexed html).  from this format we make it pretty by
converting it to html.  Through this process, ordering is preserved.


This would be a pretty easy project for someone wanting to get involved in
mozilla development.  Basically, what is needed is a better html generation
based on the indexed format.  The code lives here:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/streamconv/converters/nsIndexedToHTML.cpp

Comment 3

[firemotion+mozilla]

*** Bug 227895 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[firemotion+mozilla]

Yeah this bug isn't limited to case sensitive. It's just the sorting.

But, I think this is just "works as intended" according to Comment #2, thus
invalid as a bug. But I'll leave the marking to the assignee or the QC contact,
since they both commented here ;P

Comment 5

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

*** Bug 225628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

mass reassigning to nobody.

Comment 7

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

only critical ftp changes at this point